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How EEx Turns Your Template into HTML

• sarchertech 5y ago
  I really appreciated the comparison table between Temple, Surface, EEx, and HEEx at the end.
• sph 5y ago
  iolist are great: https://nathanmlong.com/2021/05/what-is-an-iolist/ https://nathanmlong.com/2021/05/what-is-an-iolist/ This is how an high level language such as erlang can be very efficient at printing out strings: native language support for strings embedded in lists. That way a template engine doesn't have to allocate memory and copy every time it needs to prepend or append to strings together. Just wrap them in another list. IO.puts([[ "this", [ "is", [ "an" ]]] | "iolist" ])
  • arjan_sch 5y ago
    Related to this, this is old but still a great blogpost: https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-do...
• anko 5y ago
  Really interesting article! so does this mean you could use an eex Engine to render liquid? (https://shopify.github.io/liquid/ https://shopify.github.io/liquid/)
  • pg_bot 5y ago
    Yes, that should be doable.
  • spapas82 5y ago
    You may want to take a look at solid: https://github.com/edgurgel/solid https://github.com/edgurgel/solid
• dmitriid 5y ago
  The usage and the steps to use EEx.Engine are really underdocumented IMO. I've tried to implement custom syntaxes for LiveView several times and ended up just copy-pasting and constructing the relevant structs manually.